…Or, Maybe Just Leave, Steve by Carolyn MoncelOne of five short stories contained in a collection called "5 Reasons to Leave a Lover," which debuts in spring 2011. Steve and Cinnamon have a special relationship. Follow Cinnamon as she deals with their breakup and how she recovers and finds acceptance..

2012: Verge of Destiny by Ronald HullThis story, capping my upcoming book: Verge of Apocalypse Tales, is a bit self serving, since my birthday coincides with the famous date.
I am an optimist and believe there is nothing new about all the dire concerns around us, and that we will rise to the occassion and solve them in time...

A Careful Descent by Dee SunshineIf you are going to commit suicide it helps if you are organised: otherwise all your plans may come to naught.
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A Cautionary Measure by Peggy DuffyMy fingers wander, probe, examine. Beneath my armpit alongside my left breast, I find it again. The lump is the size of a pea, moveable, pliable, floating on a layer of fat.
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A Child Too Near by B. B. RiefnerThe thin line between reality and imagination is a very thin line, unless a life depends on it; and a starving child's life does. Ignorance is bliss, or, is it? What you don't know, won't hurt you; or will it? ..

A Criminal Life - Chapter one by sarah playleThis is an experimental graphic novel I'm working on,using the medium of the Sims video game. It takes place in a user made fictional town of Saskan Harbour and follows young Anna London after her famiy's flight from their old home. This is a complete experiment so all feedback is welcome...

A Flight of Fancy by Laurel-Rain SnowA young woman, depressed by the chaos of her own life, hopes that a business trip will provide perspective...And a bit of distraction...

A Flower Girl Sister Surprise by Jerry EnglerThis is a story that studies what people might do for each other outside the realm of usual expectation. It is among stories that I wrote, and then rejected until they could be rewritten. Feel free to tell me if you think it should have stayed rejected...

A Future Face by Mark LichtermanComing from the air-cooled lobby, My, God, he thought as the heat hit him, it’s got to be a million out here today! Standing in the miniscule shad in the lee of the building, loosening his tie and removing his seersucker jacket, he draped it over the sample case..

A Memory by Samuel AlesichIn early Autumn, the wind came cold out of the North and the leaves changed color on the trees. Parting from their mother, they fluttered to the ground where they lay or blew about the yard or the side of the hills until the first rains came.
I would stand by the window and watch the rain and..

A Mother to be, Maybe. by Mark LichtermanShe knew something was different! Oh, there wasn’t a hint, or even the hint of a hint but, be it wishful thinking, she was sure she’d actually felt the force of Mitchell’s ejaculation last night, and Marsha knew! After last night, she knew!
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A Mother's Story by Peggy DuffyIt was the smile that fooled her. A brilliant, beguiling, bewitching smile which lit up the girl's face; it was an illusion, a delusion, a seduction she allowed to lure her in and ease her mind between the periods of the glum and the irritable, the attitude of indifference. ..

A Mother: Birth & Afterbirth by Mark Lichterman“Come on, Mikey!” But the baby would not pull enough suction to latch onto his mother’s nipple and it slipped from his lips again... And again, in his frustration Michael began to wail and, her eyes becoming watery with the tears of her own frustration, “Mitchie, He won’t...”
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A Mountain of Many Treasures by John Howard ReidFollowing the success of MEXICAN AUTUMN (a series of inter-related short stories), and MICAELA MORRIS IN JO'S HEAVEN, here is the title story for my work in progress, an anthology of various prose pieces, entitled A MOUNTAIN OF MANY TREASURES. As usual, I have drawn heavily on my own experiences, w..

A Naked Lady!! by Mark Lichterman On tiptoe, the two boys looked into the room.
Mitchell saw a naked, muscled man. His back was to the window and he was kneeling on the floor at the foot of the bed. Facing the window, someone else was on the bed, not at the head, but rather below the middle… His eyes opening wide in wonder. ..